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 | | In the spring of 1862, when the Fifth Minnesota regiment was being formed at Fort Snelling, Enoch, with two of his young friends, presented himself as ready to engage in military service, but was rejected on account of his extreme youth and frail body. |
 | | Ames The Minnesota Republican, the first Republican paper published in Minnesota, and on September 28, 1857, issued the first number of The Falls Evening News, the only daily paper in Minnesota, outside of the capital city, during the territorial period. |
 | | His connection with river transportation of freight passengers on the Mississippi, Minnesota Red rivers, his local agency for the first railroad built in the state, his years of experience in the coal and wood business, all brought in close relations with methods of traffic and necessarily into contact with men. |
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